Russian drone strikes on Ukraine killed three people across the country, while Ukrainian attacks killed one near Moscow and targeted Russia’s lucrative oil facilities, according to statements by the warring countries on Sunday (May 3, 2026).

The two neighbours have been firing hundreds of explosive-packed drones at each other on a daily basis throughout the four-year war, as talks to end the conflict have gone nowhere.

Fuel leaked at ​Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, while NORSI ⁠oil refinery caught fire following a drone attack, Russian authorities said on Sunday (April 5, 2026).

Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure in the past ‌month in an effort to inflict damage on Russia’s key source of revenue and undercut its ‌military might.

The governor of north-western Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko initially said ‌a ⁠pipeline was damaged at Primorsk, one of Russia’s ⁠main oil exporting outlets.

He later said in a post on the Telegram messaging app that the pipeline was not damaged but a fuel reservoir ​in the port area leaked ‌when it was hit by shrapnel.

Primorsk, one of the country’s largest export gateways, which can handle 1 million barrels per day, lost at least 40% of its storage facilities ‌in Ukrainian drone attacks last month, U.S. commercial satellite ​images seen by Reuters showed on Thursday.

At some point last month, around 40% of Russia’s oil exporting capabilities ⁠were shut due to the attacks, the closure of the Druzhba pipeline in Ukraine and the seizure of Russia-linked tankers.

Oil refinery on fire

Also on Sunday (April 5, 2026), the governor of Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, said on Telegram that fire had broken out at Russia’s NORSI oil refinery, the country’s fourth-largest, after a drone attack, adding that two facilities at the plant were hit.

He said a power station and several houses were ‌damaged during the attack although there were no injured according to preliminary information.

NORSI, ​which is also Russia’s second-largest producer of gasoline, can process 16 million metric tons of oil per ⁠year, or around 320,000 barrels per day.

Andrey Kravchenko, the mayor of ⁠Novorossiysk city, Russia’s largest port on the Black Sea, said an air alert was in effect due to ‌the incoming drone attack threat.

Oil loadings, including at the terminal which handles Kazakhstan oil exports from the Caspian ​Pipeline Consortium, are usually suspended during such alerts. 

A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro hit a bus carrying mineworkers and killed at least a dozen people, Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday (February 1, 2026), hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the next round of peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations will take place on Wednesday (February 4, 2026) and Thursday (February 5, 2026).

The strike injured several more people and sparked a fire that was subsequently put out, according to the emergency services.

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, said it owned the bus and accused Russia of carrying out “a large-scale terrorist attack on DTEK mines in the Dnipropetrovsk region,” whose capital is Dnipro.

“The epicentre of one of the attacks was a company bus transporting miners from the enterprise after a shift in the Dnipropetrovsk region,” the company said in a Telegram post.

The strike came days after U.S. President Donald Trump said the Kremlin had agreed to temporarily halt the targeting of the Ukrainian capital and other cities, as the region suffers under freezing temperatures that have brought widespread hardship to Ukrainians.

Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal on Sunday (February 1, 2026) called the strike in Dnipro “a cynical and targeted attack on energy sector workers,” and said it occured near the Ternivska mine east of the city.

Hours earlier, Ukraine’s emergency services reported that Russian attack drones injured six people at a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, on Sunday (February 1, 2026) morning.

Drones strike Ukrainian maternity hospital

Earlier on Sunday (February 1, 2026), Russian attack drones struck a maternity hospital in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainian emergency service reported.

In a Telegram post, it said the strike wounded three women in the hospital in Zaporizhzhia, and also sparked a fire in the gynecology reception area that was later extinguished. Regional administration head Ivan Fedorov later said the number of injured had risen to six.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Keith Kellogg has floated the possibility of long-range strikes by Ukraine against Russia with American weapons, following the administration’s recent pivot on the conflict.

In a Fox News interview broadcast on Sunday (September 28, 2025), Mr. Kellogg was asked whether Mr. Trump had authorised strikes deep into Russian territory — days after Moscow was accused of sending fighter jets and drones that violated the airspace of several European nations.

“Reading what [Trump] has said and reading what Vice President [J.D.] Vance has said, as well as [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio, the answer is yes,” he said.

“Use the ability to hit deep. There are no such things as sanctuaries.”

Vice President Vance said in a separate Fox News program on Sunday the U.S. was having “conversations” on whether to give long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv, a request Mr. Trump has previously denied.

“It’s something that the president is going to make the final determination on,” Mr. Vance said, referring to the missiles, adding that the U.S. was “looking at a number of requests from the Europeans.”

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in a press briefing on Monday that there was “no panacea that can change the situation on the front for the Kyiv regime.”

“There’s no magic weapon. Whether it’s Tomahawks or other missiles, they won’t be able to change the dynamic.”

Mr. Trump said last week after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Kyiv was in a position, with the European Union’s help, to fight and win “all of Ukraine back in its original form.”

Russia annexed the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea after an operation in 2014 and now controls regions in eastern and southern Ukraine following Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

It marks a shift on Ukraine for Mr. Trump, who told Mr. Zelenskyy during a televised Oval Office bust-up in February that “you don’t have the cards” to beat Russia.

Russia has vowed to press on with its offensive in the three-and-a-half-year-long conflict, with the Kremlin recently dismissing Mr. Trump’s claim that the country was a “paper tiger” with a floundering economy.

Kyiv came under heavy drone and missile attack early on Sunday in what independent monitors said was one of the biggest Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital and the surrounding region since the full-scale war began.

Drones flew over the city and anti-aircraft fire rang out through the night. The attack was continuing at 7:20 a.m. (0420 GMT).

Kyiv’s military administration said at least six people had been injured as of 0440 GMT.

Some residents fled to metro stations deep underground for safety. Many regions across the country were under air raid alert, while neighbouring Poland closed airspace near two of its southeastern cities and its air force scrambled jets in response.

An overnight Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s central Kirovohrad region partially cut power and disrupted railway operations, officials said on Wednesday (September 17, 2025).

“As of now, the regional centre and 44 settlements in the Oleksandrivka territorial community have been partially cut off from the power supply,” Andriy Raykovych wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Some private homes were also damaged and railway travel has been disrupted, he said. Emergency services reported battling fires at three locations and said there were no casualties.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said the Russian forces targeted railway infrastructure in the overnight attack, without specifying the location.

“Last night, the enemy launched a massive drone strike in an attempt to disable the substations that power the railway network,” he wrote on Telegram.

“Such strikes have a clear goal: to disrupt passenger and freight transport, disrupt the stable operation of transport, and put additional pressure on people and the economy.”

He said that the Ukrainian state railways Ukrzaliznytsia deployed over 20 reserve locomotives in the attack’s aftermath.

The Russian embassy in Romania has said a drone incursion in Romanian airspace was a “provocation” by Ukraine after Moscow’s envoy was summoned by the Foreign Ministry over the incident.

Ambassador Vladimir Lipayev said Romania’s charge that Russia was responsible for the intrusion was “unfounded”.

An embassy statement said late on Sunday (September 14, 2025): “All the facts lead one to believe that it was a deliberate provocation by the Kyiv regime” and added that Bucharest had failed to “concretely and convincingly respond” to questions posed by Russia.

Romania has had several drone fragments crash on its territory since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, especially as Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukrainian ports.

Romania reported late on Saturday that its airspace had been breached by a Russian drone.

It scrambled two F-16 fighter jets, which “detected a drone in national airspace” and tracked it until it dropped off the radar, the Defence Ministry said.

The drone did not fly over populated areas and did not pose an imminent threat to the safety of the population, the Ministry said.

Romania scrambled fighter jets on Saturday (September 13, 2025) when a drone breached the country’s airspace during a Russian attack on Ukrainian infrastructure near the border, the Defence Ministry said.

Defence Minister Ionut Mosteanu said the F-16 pilots came close to taking down the drone as it was flying very low before it left national airspace toward Ukraine. A threat of drone strikes also prompted Poland to deploy aircraft and close an airport in the eastern city of Lublin on Saturday (September 13, 2025), three days after it shot down Russian drones in its airspace with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies. Romania, a European Union and NATO state which shares a 650-km (400-mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall onto its territory repeatedly since Russia began waging war on its neighbour.

On Saturday, it scrambled two F-16 fighter jets and later two Eurofighters — part of German air policing missions in Romania — and warned citizens in the southeastern county of Tulcea near the Danube and its Ukrainian border to take cover, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

It added the jets detected a drone in national airspace, which they followed until it dropped off the radar 20 km southwest of the village of Chilia Veche.

Mr. Mosteanu told private television station Antena 3 that helicopters will survey the area near the border to look for potential drone parts, “but all information at this moment indicates the drone exited airspace to Ukraine.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media platform X that data showed the drone breached about 10 kilometres into Romanian territory and operated in NATO airspace for around 50 minutes.

“It is an obvious expansion of the war by Russia — and this is exactly how they act,” he said. “Sanctions against Russia are needed. Tariffs against Russian trade are needed. Collective defence is needed.” NATO announced plans to beef up the defence of Europe’s eastern flank on Friday, after Poland shot down drones that had violated its airspace, the first known shots fired by a member of the Western alliance during Russia’s war in Ukraine. Romanian lawmakers approved a law earlier this year enabling the army to shoot down drones illegally breaching Romanian airspace during peacetime, based on threat levels and risks to human life and property, but the bill does not yet have all enforcement rules approved.

Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard wrote on platform X that the airspace breach was “another unacceptable violation of NATO airspace.”

“Sweden stands in full solidarity with Romania as a NATO Ally and EU Member State. We are always ready to contribute further to the deterrence and defence of the Alliance.”